St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-02
JONES' HOT SHOT.
The Eloquent Evangelist Fires at a
Large Audience Of SANITY
City Sinners,
Who Gave Him His Usual Reception
in Exposition Rink Yesterday
Afternoon.
There We're Three Thousand Who Heard
His Sermon While they Famed
Themselves.
If He Did Not Stick to His Sunday School
Text, He Caught His
Crowd.
And That, He Says, Is His Business
When He is on the
Platform.
Text of His Sermon, Full of Home1y
Truth Straight From
the Shoulder.
And That, He Says, Is His Business
When He is on the
Platform.
Text of His Sermon, Full of Homely
Truth Straight From
the Shoulder.

! yesterday afternoon he saw about 3, 900 peo-
| pie wearing first of May garments and
inning themselves. The meeting was
| held under the auspices of the Ramsey
County Sun day School Teachers associa-
ton, but the Reverend Jones cut by all odds
a larger figure than the association, and in
| spite of the heat of the day people
turned out to see and hear him. About
every seat in the rink was taken
including all the galleries, the audience be-
ing about representative one. 1t was un-
comfortably warm in the building, but no
one seemed to mind it, but kept in good
humor throughout the long service. On
| the platform were seated beside the speaker
about twenty-five of the prominent Sunday
| school workers and a choir. Sam Jones
! caught the temper of the audience pretty
we'll and had the usual amount of applause
and laughter during his talk. with few, if
any, occasions for any tears. After few
Introductory exercises, which included the
singing of the DoXology by the audience,
Sam Jones was introduced. His sermon is
| given in full below:
1t affords me personal pleasure to be with
| such st. Paul audience on such an occasion
| as this. This service is held especially in the
| interest OF the Sabbath schools and Sabbath
school workers believe it is the first time
| in my experience when have stood before
| SuCu an auOlenCe on SuCn an occasion. L
| have had no time and very little disposition to
make any preparation for this occasion
Physically, have been quite unwel the past
| few weeks, and with the hard work of two
| services day upon me, personally, feel
unequal to the task before me. But God is
! able to do great things for us if we look up to
| him. If we pray the Giver of All
Good to bless this service, we shall have the
! blessing-as parents, as Sunday school work
| ers and Sunday school scholars-and as the
great ultimatum of all Sabbath school work
| centers on this verse, believe I will take it
| as the text for this occasion:
| "Yea, and / count all things but lost, for
! the eXcellency of the knowledge of Christ
| Jesus, my Lord.
The Sabbath school teacher who stops this
side of personal acquaintance with Jesus
Christ; the Sabbath school teacher who lets
| his pupils stop this side of there. is not only
A FRUITLESS MAN,
| but he is doing fruitless work. "Christ
| Jesus, my Lord is the one 1 teach, the one 1
enjoy, and the one would have others enjoy,
''the chiefest among ten Thousands; the one
| altogether lovely" Your salvation, my sal
walton depends upon our faith in the person
| of Christ, and he who lays down his creed and
| holds up Christ crucified, is a preacher tina
| is helping to bring about the millennium, and
| he who lays down Christ and holds up his
| credible is q preacher that is helping the
| devil put off the coming of the millennium.
YEA and count all things but lost, for the
eXcelency Of the knowledge OF Christ Jesus,
| my Lord" But the three great questions of
| this nineteenth century, upon which the
| greatest minds are thinking, upon which the
most gifted pens are writing, are these three
| questions: "Who is Christi What is
Christ?' and ''Where is Christi" These
| thinking minds to-day than they
have ever engaged in any age of the worlds
| history. There have been more "Lives of
Christ written In the last half century than
was ever written before, since He lived upon
earth. Men everywhere are inquiring ''Who
is Christi what is Christi "Where is
Christi And the honor of Christ and the
salvation of the world depend largely upon
! the wise answering Of these questions. If l
would know who Christ is, believe / would
| refer the question to His own ears, and get
| the answer from His own lips. There was
time in his worlds history when it seemed
| that this world was great orphanage, and
| unanimity w6S without a father, and this
| world groped In that orphanage, and in that
| darkness and despair for hundreds of years,
| and finally, when despair was about to settle
| down forever there was an intense desire
| to hear the voice of the Great One that in
habiteth eternity, and they bent their ears
and looked into the darkness above them and
they CRIED "Oh, that Great One that inhab-
iteth eternity; speak Thou, and let us hear
| Thy voice! Tell us who Thou art!' They lis
| tened, and ont Of eternity the voice shouted
back, II ami They said, "Glory be to His
name, we are not orphans! Our Father is
| above us: His eye is over us; we don't see
| him, but we hear His voice! He is there! We
| have Father and we grope no longer in
orphanage!" And the world blessed His
name, and seemed satisfied for a thousand
| years with simply that, but yet the time came
| again when they could wait no longer. I'M
! patient, restless they again bent their ears
| into the darkness above them and they said,
| "Oh, Father, we have heard Thy voice; speak
again and let us hear more of Thee, till we
| see who Thou art" and the voice whispered
back, II am that / am" And they said,
| ''Glory to His name; He has told us
MORE THIS TIME
than He did before" There comes time
when he makes full revelation of himself,
| when the old prophet came and stood on the
| hills of Judea with his torch in hand, and
| shouted out the glad tidings, and his voice
| was heard by Simeon and Anna, and they
went and prepared cradle to rock the babe
of Bethlehem. And that day the star passed
over the manger and pointed like an index
finger. saying to the craven universe: This
is the babe wrapt in swaddling garments.
The king of all the angels is asleep in Mary's
arms" And then the world watched
until that day when the wise men
| gathered about the Son of God, and
| they said, Nov we will get more light
more information-let all the world be si-
lent" And Jesus opened his mouth and He
said ''I am and they said "Hush! we
heard that two thousand years ago. We will
get more light. The HOOD TIDE OIL llRnt Is ABOUT
to break upon us, and we will leave these
! things that will make us arise unto salvation"
And Jesus opened his mouth and said, IL
am the life! am the way!" And when the
world heard that they said among themselves,
''The way? the way? We have been cropping
in the wilderness for four thousand years
We have been lost in the darkness and de-
spair and at last He tells us He is the way.
Here is the way, the highway, the thorough
fare, the holy way-the way from
sin to holiness, the way from earth to
heaven. the way we may be saved" Oh
what an announcement to the lost world
wandering in the Wilderness! At last the
highway-God, the everlasting life--opens up
at their feet, and he bids them walk in this
pathway to glory. And Jesus is the way,
and not way, but the way. He is as much
way to my soul as those rails stretched
along those ties are the way for that engine
10 roll in safety and speed If l walk down
and step onto the railroad track, and / never
saw one. never heard of one before, I look
at If, and if i don't know what it is made for,
and can't guess, will try and take a Wheel
barrow and roll it along those tracks. until
find they were not made for a wheel
barrow. Then i drive wagon up
on those tracks, and / won't drive
more than ten steps before /
find the way was not made for q wagon. But
/ walk down to that round-house and look at
that magnificent Baldwin engine, and L say,
II believe this engine was made for that
way" and roll that engine out on the tr ack
and as the finger of the steam-gauge dances
| up to $50 pounds pressure l
PULL THE THROTTLE OPEN,
ard sea that engine roll out at the rate Of Q